Legal Ethics

Henry E. Smith & Thomas W. Merrill, The Morality of Property, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1849 (2007).

Gabriella Blum, The Role of the Client: The President’s Role in Government Lawyering, 32 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 275 (2009).

Frank I. Michelman, Ethics, Economics, and the Law of Property, 39 Tulsa L. Rev. 663 (2004).

David B. Wilkins, In Defense of Law and Morality: Why Lawyers Should Have a Prima Facie Duty to Obey the Law, 38 Wm. & Mary…

David B. Wilkins, Do Clients Have Ethical Obligations to Lawyers? Some Lessons from the Diversity Wars, 11 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 855 (1998).

David B. Wilkins, Identities and Roles: Race, Recognition, and Professional Responsibility. 57 Md. L. Rev. 1502 (1998).

David B. Wilkins, Partners Without Power? A Preliminary Look at Black Partners in Corporate Law Firms, 2 J. Inst. Stud. Legal Ethics 15 (1999).

Elizabeth Chambliss & David B. Wilkins, Promoting Effective “Ethical Infrastructure” in Large Law Firms: A Call for Research and Reporting, 30 Hofstra L.J. 691 (2002).

Elizabeth Chambliss & David B. Wilkins, The Emerging Role of Ethics Advisors, General Counsel, and other Compliance Specialists in Large Law Firms, 44 Ariz. L.

Elizabeth Chambliss & David B. Wilkins, A New Framework for Law Firm Discipline, 16 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 335 (2003).

David B. Wilkins, Beyond “Bleached Out” Professionalism: Defining Professional Responsibility for Real Professionals, in, Ethics in Practice, Lawyers’ Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation 207 (Deborah L.

David B. Wilkins, Some Realism About Legal Realism for Lawyers: Assessing the Role of Context in Legal Ethics, in Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decisionmaking in…

David B. Wilkins, Rethinking the Public-Private Distinction in Legal Ethics: The Case of ‘Substitute’ Attorneys General, 2010 Mich. St. L. Rev. 423.

David B. Wilkins, Everyday Practice Is the Troubling Case: Confronting Context in Legal Ethics, in Everyday Practice and Trouble Cases (Austin Sarat et al., eds.,…

David B. Wilkins, Race, Ethics, and the First Amendment: Should a Black Lawyer Represent the Ku Klux Klan?, 63 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1030 (1995).

David B. Wilkins, Making Context Count — Regulating Lawyers After Kaye, Scholer, 66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1145 (1993).

David B. Wilkins, Presumed Crazy: The Structure of Argument in the Hill/Thomas Hearings, 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1517 (1992).

Thomas B. Metzloff & David B. Wilkins, Foreword, Teaching Legal Ethics, 58 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (1995).

David B. Wilkins, How Should We Determine Who Should Regulate Lawyers? — Managing Conflict and Context in Professional Regulation, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 465 (1996).

David B. Wilkins, The Professional Responsibility of Professional Schools to Study and Teach About the Profession, 49 J. Legal Educ. 76 (1999).

Andrew Crespo, What Will You Do if Mueller is Fired?, Just Security (Dec. 21, 2017).